Collection Highlights
Portrait of Six Young Women Seated in a Turkish Corner
Date:
Object Number:
PR.120.1.3.SIX
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Museum Collections
Tea bowl and saucer
Object Number:
1957.306mv
Date:
1765-1778
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Part (tea bowl): 1 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (4.4 x 8.6 cm)
Part (saucer): 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Description:
Underglaze blue painted porcelain tea bowl and saucer with an oriental style scene of rocks, stylized spreading tree, a flat bridge over water to a small building; pattern is the "long bridge" pattern; interior rim of both bowl and saucer are outlined in a cross hatched diaper pattern; the saucer with an additional blue line.
Gallery Label:
The glaze of the saucer and its paste are decidely grayer than those of the tea bowl.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Edmund Astley Prentis
Provenance:
WH 39
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
